Module 3 of 4 · Part 2: Run Your Business
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You are building something real.

Your clients, your relationships, remembered

Your own CRM. No subscription. No data lock-in. Real relationships, tracked the way you actually think about people.

After this module: A relationship system that tracks every touchpoint across email, LinkedIn, calls, and meetings on one timeline. A morning briefing that names the one conversation to have today. A nightly freshness scan that flags stale cards. All yours, all running.

Sprint Session, Part 2 Week 3
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This week's pack

Module 7 pack: your CRM and bookings

CRM skills, guides, migrations and functions, including Cal.com bookings.

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Skills (9)

/booking-system · /crm-aware · /crm-refresh · /email-send · /email-sequence · /email-triage · /linkedin-sweep · /transcript · /transcript-to-sales-pitch

Database migrations (15)

Apply these to set up your back end tables and jobs.

Edge functions (6)

Server-side functions you deploy to your own back end.

Build guides (4)

Step-by-step, one per piece: Crm setup · Email sequences · Crm integrations · Calcom booking system

👇 After this module

Your clients are remembered. Contacts, pipeline, conversations, sequences, follow-ups. Your business runs from your root system.

What you'll do this week

What you'll leave with

  • A CRM that fits the way you actually work
  • Contacts auto-promoted by score and engagement
  • Pipeline statuses that match your sales reality
  • Email sequences sending in your voice, not Mailchimp's
  • Follow-ups happening without you remembering
  • The relationships you have, organized and visible

Why this matters

CRMs are built for sales teams. You are not a sales team. Your CRM should hold the conversations you actually have, the promises you actually make, the people you actually serve. This week you build one that fits you, not one you fit yourself into.

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Lesson 1: Why build your own CRM

A founder's CRM is doing a different job than a sales team's. The shape should fit your relationships, not someone else's quota.
The big CRMs solved real problems. You can take the good ideas and leave the subscription, the per-seat pricing, and the data lock-in.
Your Part 1 JSON contacts become the seed data for a real database. Same shape, more capacity, one source of truth.
Relationships move themselves forward when you log what is real. You stop being the bookkeeper of your own pipeline.
Time decay means the people who feel close right now are at the top of the list. Old activity stops misleading you.
Promises are not notes. A promise has a date and surfaces on the day it is due. This is the difference between meaning to follow up and following up.
Sequences in your voice work because someone wrote them. Pause-on-reply makes them feel human.
Two short emails every morning (relationships, sales) tell you almost everything you need to know before you open your laptop.
Ingest, do not replace. Calendly, Stripe, Gmail, LinkedIn all flow into one place. Your CRM is where the signals converge.
The starter is a starting line. Weights, thresholds, words, layout, all of it is yours to bend, one small friction at a time.
1Migrate your CRM. Tell Claude: "walk me through Guide 71". Your Part 1 JSON becomes your seed data.
2Open one contact who already matters to you. Add one true note about them. Add one promise you owe them, with a due date.
3Log one real conversation with /crm-log. Paste a thread or summarise a call. Watch the contact update.
4Pick one of the three sequences. Rewrite the words in your voice. Send the first email to yourself before anyone else sees it.
5Turn on the daily relationship briefing. Pick the send time. Tomorrow morning, your inbox tells you who needs you.
6Wire one webhook. Calendly is the easiest. Now new bookings land in the right place on their own.
7Set the consent level on the contacts you imported from LinkedIn. Personal only is usually right.
8Pick the one thing about the starter that already bothers you. Tell Claude in plain English. That is your first customisation.
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